A beggarly existence in the slums. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : How does he manage on such a beggarly salary?. From Dictionary.com.
"There was a sort of cocky unconcern about the creature that gave his miserable state a kind of beggarly distinction. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
The miserable, the beggarly petition, for a dependent. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Was there ever such a beggarly account of empty boxes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
If I had the money I wouldn't be so beggarly poor as I am. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Where's there such a beggarly house as this in all the village?. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Ashendale, if he were to be set aside by a beggarly sailor-boy?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
You paid them a beggarly pittance, your substitute prey-of-the-sword. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Confound him and his beggarly high cheek-bones, and his Caledonian pock-pits. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
And yet there was nothing beggarly about the appearance of the old knife-grinder. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
They wore their heavy makeup and pointed golden tiaras for beggarly bits of baht. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
What is your beggarly police to me, or your beggarly king either, and all his court?. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"It's Cornell and the beggarly allowance," thought Lansing, but it was no such thing. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Maskat as 'a beggarly, poor town, 'and' Ormusz, 'he says,' is become a heap of ruins. '. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
State is the appropriation for running such a noble institution so beggarly as in ours. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
The saying always was "Patch beside patch is neighborly; patch upon patch is beggarly.". From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
"A beggarly Parisian; yo, yo!" quoth the postilion as he passed, clacking his long whip. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The fish would not rise that afternoon, and there was but a beggarly brace in the basket. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
I would report you to your superiors if they weren't of the same miserable beggarly caste. From Wordnik.com. [‘Homer & Langley’] Reference
"The closing paragraphs of his message are a beggarly petition to the South," wrote George. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
"That love" -- and the same is true of strawberries -- "is beggarly which can be reckoned.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
“You are an impudent, beggarly rascal,” said our hasty-tempered purveyor of provisions to him. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
This restaurant was more legitimate and less beggarly in appearance although not exempt from taxes. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
The most beggarly individual who wore the sword claimed precedence of the most substantial citizen. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
A beggarly excuse was set up after the campaign was over, -- that the time of service of many of the. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Regiments was about expiring, and that the men would not reënlist, -- not only beggarly, but false. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The approach of the Gibeonites to the camp of Israel in their mock-beggarly costume might be mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
I was to imagine absolutely the most important old master in private possession, his for a beggarly price. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
That argument has for its ground-work beggarly assumptions and for its main pillar, reasoning no less beggarly. From Wordnik.com. [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference
"You may think that flattering, but I confess it seems to me a beggarly compliment (as men's to women usually are).". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
He made the fortune of the beggarly Prince Karl and the whole hungry crowd of royal highnesses in spite of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
They were both unfortunate beggarly outsiders beaten up by life; and yet he was riding around in an air-conditioned bus. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
"Well, he can't now put his daughter on her guard, or inflame her with the magnificent spirit of the beggarly Charrebourgs.". From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The bitter reproaches of kinsfolk pursued him vainly as he set out in beggarly state to give service to the poor and despised. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
It was at one of the early meetings of this body that he called the municipal functionaries of Dublin, "a beggarly Corporation.". From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Mignon, however, was secretly furious at the, to her, unbelievable report that "that beggarly Stevens girl could actually sing.". From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
The 'beggarly dole,' indeed, brought small relief to the domestic anxieties which now more than ever oppressed Mozart and his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
The main difficulty was to get a place that looked clean enough to sit upon; for a dirtier palace I never saw, nor a more, beggarly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
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